Official UK procurement notice
Contract for the Provision of General Carpentry Maintenance
Authority: Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSouth Wales Police are seeking a Contractor to provide planned and reactive carpentry services, together with associated works.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 3 Mar 2033, 23:59 GMT.
- No preliminary market engagement: The Contracting Authority is satisfied that sufficient market knowledge already exists to develop the procurement strategy and tender documentation without the need for additional engagement. Undertaking PME would therefore not provide any material benefit, improve competition, or influence the design of the procurement, and could result in unnecessary delay and additional resource expenditure. The procurement will remain open, transparent, and competitive, ensuring all potential suppliers have an equal opportunity to bid.
CPV: Joinery and carpentry installation work · Repair and maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£600,000
- Economic & financial standing
Please see ITT attachments code 127949 etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
- Technical & professional ability
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What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Qualification
- Technical: Quality' for non-financial criteria including social value.
- Commercial: Price for the total or unit price of an item of works
- Economic & financial standing
Please see ITT attachments code 127949 etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
- Technical & professional ability
Please see ITT attachments code 127949 etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £299,795 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales buys Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542), and who usually turns up
Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 10 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11%
2–333%
4–622%
7+33%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate67%
Within ±2%22%
Above estimate11%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 4542Published estimate£600k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–331%
4–632%
7+26%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
Based on 8 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£492k–£600k
Estimate£600k
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £441k3 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 3 live · £441k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 | |
| £158k3 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 1 live · £64k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 25% below n=1 | |
| £412k1 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | None on file | 9% below n=1 | |
| £1.7m4 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | None on file | 16% above n=2 | |
| £272k1 awards in 36m · last 21 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 3 Mar 2033
- First published
- 23 Oct 2026, 10:11 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Oct 2026, 10:11 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 18 Dec 2026
- Authority reference
JCPS0680- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-100278- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078e86Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 26 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 19 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk ↗ ITT 127949
Timeline
23 Oct 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice publishedearlier today23 Oct 2026, 10:11 BST
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 27 days19 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 34 days26 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 56 days18 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 128 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published23 Oct 2026, 10:11 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications code ITT_127949
- Technical specifications code ITT_127949
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender